PROOF IN THE HATCHING
Easter eggs at extravagant prices were having vogue in Britain this year, but nothing of this kind is ever likely to break the record achieved by a member of the court of Napoleon 111. Ono year the Emperor sent a famous actress of whom he was enamoured a vast egg, conveyed on a lorry, containing a miniature carriage with a pair of live ponies, with which she created a sensataion by driving up and down the promenades at Longchamps during Easter week. The following year Napoleon sent the same lucky lady an egg much smaller, but also much more costly. The yolk was composed of jewels to the value of '£lo/100.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12464, 4 June 1926, Page 12
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